Lying Quotes · Page 73

Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal.

— Michael Barone

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

— Franz Kafka

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

— Joseph O'Neill

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

…is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends.

— Anonymous

The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.

— Diosdado Macapagal

I don't tell lies about anybody. That's why i win all my wars.

— Fela Kuti

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for…

— Kathi Appelt

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them…

— Peter S. Beagle

“He didn't know why he was lying. Perhaps because his vanity was being engaged, and he wasn't above attending to his vanity.”

— Don Lee

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main…

— Umberto Eco

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

— John F. Kennedy

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation…

— John Christopher

Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant…

— Paul Bloom

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns…

— Walter de La Mare

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that…

— Swami Vivekananda

When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human…

— Bob Dornan

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between…

— Anonymous

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is…

— Alan Watts

You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity…

— Richard P. Feynman

I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred…

— Diana Gabaldon

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter…

— Theodore Dreiser

Hello, hello.” Magnus swept toward them..."Alec, my darling, Clary. And rat-boy." He swept a bow toward Simon, who looked annoyed. "To what…

— Cassandra Clare

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …

— Agatha Christie

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

— Miguel de Cervantes

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

— Vernon Howard

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

— Thomas Carlyle

Dont even tell a lie cause at the end it always ends up to come out.

— $Teady

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

— Peter Sellers

I never lie for the sake of kindness,” he murmured, smiling. “One of my many flaws.

— Lisa Kleypas

“Your a lying bastard who only cares about his own damned hide, so just leave me the hell alone! ~ Eve”

— Lisa Jackson

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

— Anonymous

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

— Tallulah Bankhead

When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

— Walter de La Mare

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

— Anne Perry

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

— Anne Bradstreet

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

— Kristin Cashore

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.

— Anonymous

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

— Cynthia Ozick